Functional Ear Trainer vs Cratedex

Have you (or maybe one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear? It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others. Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it? Imagine you could understand music... It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning. One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's method to learn to recognize tones. The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale. And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter: - who you are - an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician; - how old you are - a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult; - what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one). The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day. I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.

Cratedex is where you say what you thought of an album, and find out what everyone else thinks. Rate one, write a few lines about it, pick your top songs, and score the tracks if you want to go deeper. Everything lands in your journal, newest first, so a year from now you can see what you were playing and what you thought of it. Pick four albums for your profile, the ones you want people to know you by, and keep a queue for what to hear next. Star an artist and their releases sit one tap from Home. Follow your friends to see what they've been rating. Their reviews sit under every album next to yours, so you can like the ones you agree with and say something in the comments. The chart shows what everyone's been playing this week. Cratedex is on the web too, at cratedex.com. It's free, with no ads and no tracking. Every review and comment can be reported, and anything that breaks the community rules comes down.